I’m going to start this article off with a short example of what I consider to be misreporting. On Tuesday morning I tuned into Good Morning Scotland and heard the following news bulletin. If you listen to the clip…

It is fashionable to be disparaging about market forces. All too often this attitude is justified as, unfettered, these forces produce outcomes that are less than optimum – or worse. But reason demands we allow that every once in a…

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has revealed that he won’t stand in the way of a second independence referendum. Mr Smith, who is challenging Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the UK Labour party, told BBC Radio Scotland that it…

If NHS Scotland staff don’t feel “valued and wanted” then those most to blame for this are the British political parties n Scotland and their accomplices in the media who are all too evidently prepared to throw our health service…

If the Sunday Herald is to be believed, Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘summer initiative’ aimed at persuading No voters to change their minds and switch to Yes, is set to be launched. The news was revealed days after it emerged Elaine C.…

There was an interesting moment on Good Morning Scotland this week. On Friday morning presenter Hayley Millar and her co-host Bill Whiteford were reading out the newspaper headlines. Millar came to the Daily Telegraph which had splashed with an anti-SNP…

This is another one of those newspaper stories where the headline is totally contradicted by the content. It is only the judicious use of the single quote punctuation that prevents the headline being an outright lie. Read on and it…

We need a date for indyref2, wrote Kevin McKenna recently. We need an alternative currency plan, others have insisted. We must question the rightwing case for indy, says Robin McAlpine. There’s no shortage of people ready to offer advice on…

It’s GERS time again. The festival specially created in order to remind the subsidy-junkies of North Britain just how lucky they are to be part of the Union. Once a year Westminster, having tossed its spare change into Scotland’s plastic…

The constitutional question is, without doubt, the most significant issue in Scottish politics at this time. It is remarkable, therefore, that there should be so much shallow thinking on the topic, even from well-respected academics. We have come to expect…